The Taiwan New Year Bird Count (Taiwan NYBC) is a citizen science project that aims to monitor the status and trends of migratory waterbirds in Taiwan proper and its outlying islands. It was launched by the Taiwan Wild Bird Federatiopn (TWBF), the Wild Bird Society of Taipei (WBST), the Kaohsiung Wild Bird Society (KWBS) and Taiwan Endemic Species Institute(ESRI) in December 2013. The monitoring methods of the Taiwan NYBC follow the basic principles laid out in the more commonly known Christmas Bird Count. Over the course of 23 days from mid-December to early January (with January 1st as a midpoint), volunteer teams choose a 24-hour period to count all the birds within a circular sample area having a radius of three kilometers. Species, abundance, location, date, start time, end time, party size, survey method and weather are all recorded. Survey methods including line transect, counting flocks, area search, amongst others. This data provides valuable information about the distribution and community composition of Taiwan’s wintering avifauna. This has importance for conservation goals along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway as it offers an in depth look at the site usage of a number of migratory bird species. At the national level, findings are shared with government agencies such as Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior. Internationally, the data is shared with Wetlands International for use in the Asian Waterbird Census.